----- Original Message ----- From: "Tony Finch" <dot@xxxxxxxx> To: "John R Levine" <johnl@xxxxxxxxx> Cc: "Phillip Hallam-Baker" <phill@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>; "IETF Discussion Mailing List" <ietf@xxxxxxxx> Sent: Wednesday, April 13, 2016 11:06 AM > John R Levine <johnl@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > The UK filter is an "opt out" filter, and I assume that we (the IETF) opted > > > out. ... > > > > This isn't the parental filter, this is the child porn filter, which I am > > fairly sure is mandatory, at last on consumer ISPs. > > As I understand it this kind of filtering only applies to the largest > consumer ISPs. We don't have any filtering of that kind on the academic > network I help to look after, for example. The IETF network would not have > any filtering unless the IETF NOC put it in. Well, applies to the consumer access supported by the ISP; get a business contract with the ISP and AFAICT there is no filtering. (Well, there is, but of e-mail, not web access, based on rules on what is and is not an acceptable e-mail, rules which are confidential and customers are not allowed to know. I came across them when I sent an e-mail with no subject and a three word body - this contravenes the AUP of the ISP:-( On the other hand, my local council filters web access heavily and denies access to a number of wholy innocent sites, such as a bed and breakfast in the country. I have viewed the site from an academic network and cannot see what it is the council have latched on to. Tom Petch > > Tony. > -- > f.anthony.n.finch <dot@xxxxxxxx> http://dotat.at/ - I xn--zr8h punycode